Hal Borland Quotes
For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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Thankfully, I have a very full life. I'm married with kids, so I have a lot of things to focus on, other projects either in post-production or pre-production, so you just do the best you can.
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If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington.
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People who never get anxious always amaze me. The world could be breaking up, and they're saying, 'Everything's fine!'
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You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.
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I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.
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For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.
